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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Biographical

J. M. G. Le Clézio was born in 1940 in Nice, France. He is a descendent of a
Breton family that emigrated in the 18th century to Mauritius. He completed
his undergraduate studies at the Institut d’Études Littéraires in Nice and is a Doctor of Philosophy.

Despite his extensive travels, since the age of seven or eight J. M. G. Le
Clézio has never stopped writing: poems, sagas, tales, short stories, of which
nothing was published until Le Procès-verbal (The Interrogation), his first
novel, appeared in print in September 1963, for which he received Le Prix
Renaudot. In 1980 he received Le Grand Prix Paul-Morand from the French
Academy for his novel Désert.

This autobiography/biography was written
at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les
Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures/The Nobel Prizes. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted
by the Laureate.